Southern Warehouse

For well over a century we have been solving the transportation and warehousing challenges of our customers. Southern Warehousing and Distribution was born from the vision of two young entrepreneurs striving to meet the transportation demands of a booming South Texas city. Since those early days we have been committed to tailoring our services to meet our customer's ever changing and uniquely diverse needs.

Today, we operate a state-of-the-art 265,000 sq. foot warehouse. However, from our years of experience, we know that our customer's needs don't end with warehousing. That's why it has become our goal to facilitate the complete transportation and warehousing process with minimal effort and cost to you, the customer. In addition to our warehouse and full service distribution operation we also offer, through our sister company SMS Logistics, Inc., a complete truckload and load consolidation service with delivery throughout North America.

Providing excellent customer service, paired with the best facilities and equipment the industry can provide, is not only our goal but our commitment since 1880.

Southern Warehousing & Distribution was founded in 1880 when two San Antonio businessmen partnered to create a small transportation company. Henry Carter and Thomas Mullaly joined forces in order to provide transport service to the rapidly expanding San Antonio. The company began as Carter-Mullaly Transfer Line, providing a handful of services such as livery, sales, feed stable, transfer and baggage, undertaker and funeral director. Over the past 120 years this family owned company changed and grew with the demands of the market.

The demand for transportation and warehousing services in South Texas and Mexico drove the company to grow exponentially. Soon the original downtown location was unable of handling the volume of business Southern was receiving. After a series of moves and expansions the company purchased 16 acres near I-35 and I-10, major north-south and east-west freeways.

Since this purchase in 1960 we have built a state-of-the art warehouse, and created our sister company SMS Logistics, Inc. to provide an expansive shipping service.